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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1935.

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AIRLIFT OVER

THE SAHARA

Paris, Aug. 11.

Glant French cargo aircraft are maintaining a ceaseless airlift across the Sahara this summer to deliver jeeps, bulldozers and oil derricks to French prospectors before winter rains make the runways of the sunbaked oasis unserviceable.

Some 1,500 young technicians have flown from schools and factories in France to the remote southern territories of Algeria, armed with picks and Geiger counters.

They believe that they can secrets act to talk about their turn the Algerian Sahara, half Ands, hit it is known that small us France, into, quantities of radioactive minerals as large again

discovered in south unother Texas, Ruhr or Urals have been before the end of this century. Algerin. Industrialists and government departments are spending 30,000

The political and economic the

million francs this year to help effects of large finds in

atomie Neld on France's future

the prospector to prove it.

would be incalculable.

reason

Within two years, France hopes

Further

for French to have 20 oil wells operating In the southem territories. Seven haste is the knowledge that the French population of wolls, grouped

round the in-native

Africs is increasing by 25 per ten years and that cent every each

40,000 more hectares (100,000 acres) of land reduced to desert.

If not prepaid a booking fee Salah pusis, are considered very of 50 cents is charged.

PERSONAL

THE ADVERTISER Box 117 whiten to sincerely thank all those who volunteered their services. A roster has now been arranged and should any further assistanIONS be. neded. the Divertiser will Comunicate

individually.

CARS FOR SALE

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*Industrialisation of the Sahara,

starting at the edge of the great ouses. would speed up irrigation projects, which in turn would increase the food supplies of French Africa.

under stretches from Laghouat Oasis in the north to Tamanrasset in the mid-Sahara, near the frontier of French West Africa. From Paris 10 Tamanrasset by air is 2,000 milles. The Algerian alway stops on the edge of the near the oasis of Columb-Bechar.

It has long been known that which

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lead,

Geologists are studying ways of tapping the water supply they know exists in a great underground

Lake

far

Nurses in Egypt emphaticai- ly refuse to rido camels or donkeys. They are mostly city

Faure's Visit siris and have adden bicycle

To Russia

Welcomed

London, Aug. 11.

visit to The forthcoming Russla by France's Prime Minis- ter and Foreign Seerotary. M. and M. Antoine Edgar Fauro Pinay, has great importance for the future casing of International tension, Moscow Radio said to- day.

Box lib, Che Mat or telephone the shifting sands of the Sahara below the surface of the desert. in Algeria cover wealth of minerals; iron, zine, MUSICAL

moreury,

copper,

antimony Coal Producing kaolin, marble, onyx, salt and coal. But in the half century LATEST OPERAS

available Are

firat industrial Hartered Bride. Dalibor. The His since Marshal Lyautey completed Otello, Falstaff Butterfly, Sonam the subjugation of Algeria, most city will be Colomb-Bechar, a

Traviata, bula, Bohemia,

Faust,

the near and industrial, ne- coal-producing_area_ Electra Salome, Boris commercial Turandot,

been limited to the Moroccan border. The French Importance Godounov Life For The Car,ivity has Barbiero, Touca, Lohengrin, Melter tertile and thickly populated Government has allotted 17,000 £17 hinges, Tristan, etc. from D. Esses,

(about Aigerian ses

seaboard.

million francs 4A. Das Voeux Hood, toom 1, 2nd

10T the Industrial flour. Tol. 30100.

WANTED KNOWN

The Sahara's

Algerla's deep south was left millicent of this town. In

Lo its ancient ways the im memorial commerce of Arab with few years, Negro, and the exploits of white Colomb-Bechar

of

the

population now 25,000 Is

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NOTICE

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED.

Notice to Shareholders

In which the Sahara has' priority. M. Gaston Palewski, a Minister without portfolio in the govern- ment of M. Edgar Faure, is re- sponsible for speeding up re- search and development 10 Franch Africa.

Added Speed

Recent developments in French aviation are adding to the speed NOTICE 18 HEREBY with which the territory is being GIVEN that 11 Interim opened up. The Breguet and Hurei-Dubois companies have Dividend in respet of the provided transport aircraft cap- of 70 cents per able of working from small im- year 1955 share, free of tax, has been provised airfields and of carry- loads economically declared payable on and after 8th September, 1955.

buge

ng over thousands of miles,

One reason for the haste with which France is exploring her most desolato possession is the prospect of finding uranium and cobalt. Government geologista

Applications for Dividend Warrants should be made elther personally or by letter to the Registered Office of the are 'Company, P. & O. Building,

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The Register of Members of the Company will be closed

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forbidden by the official

TURCO-IRAQI CO-OPERATION

since they went to school. Little by llifle, the peasants have come to accept that the bloyclé la something that goes with nurses in the country. Picture shows:--This is how a camel snubs a bleycle. Two of the Government nurses ride

along

camel-track that serves as a road to a country village. The girl on the camel looks half shocked, half en- vious-United Press.

Famous Song

Writer Dies

Stamford, Conn., Aug. 11., Andrew Sterling, writer of hundreds of popular songs, died today la hosollal nges 60.

Bicycles

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Bayreuth Festival NEAR CAPACITY

PERFORMANCES

Bonn, Aug. 11. The annual Richard Wagner festival, one of the great international annual musical events, which is now under way at Bayreuth, promises to be one of the most successful ever staged in this small Bavarian town.

A performance of "The Flying Dutchman" on July 22 began the festival, which ends on August 21 after 25 presentations of seven operas. In addition to "The Flying Dutchman," the festival will include "Tannhauser," "Parsifal," and the. four which make up the "Ring" cycle- "Rheingold," "Die Walkure," "Siegfried" and. "Gotterdammerung.".

It was Richard Wagner, ori- Visitors to the Bayrouth' den- ginator of the new-style operatival since the war have been known as "musical drama, in impressed-and, often, surprised which the music and action are by the uncompromisingly Tuninterrupted iristead of being modern stage settings - by Wie-

divided

into up

arlas land Wagner. For Wieland has and recitative, who also had the scrapped the traditional Wag- idea of staging a special series nerlan decors. No longer do of musical productions in a re- boarded heroes posture among latively out-of-the-way place the Victorian idea of Germanic and advertising them 08 abric-a-bac. The heroes are "festival."

clean-shaven, and the stage bare,

abstract and contempor-

He and his wife, Cosimo.ary.

is

daughter of Liszt, organised the

Many of Wagner's' more con- first festival at Bayreuth, where they lived, in 1876. Other feservative admirers have been tivals have since sprung up father reserved in their accop- elsewhere, notably at Salzburg tance of these alternations. But argues that and laler Edinburgh, But Bay- Wieland himself routh retains

and that unique times have changed features.

had his grandfather been aliva today, he would have approved.

many

ONE THING Critics all over, the world

setting

talent

and

that the new agree show remarkablo For one thing, it is entirely that the quality of the produc devoted to the works of Wag-tions since the war is as high as ner, with the emphasis on the ever. The polyglot brochure for India, Pakistan Middle Ring" series which is perform this year's festival can quote Fast, Africa, Great Britain&ed every year.

FIDAY, AUGUST 12,

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·U.S.A... Canada, 0 p.m.

By Burtica Macao, M.

The broadcast suld it was ats Important step in strengthening friendship between the peoples

BATURDAY, AUGUST 13 of the two countries and "the

By Alr He had been an Invalid since the of

positive

Thalland, Malaya, Indonesia, Aus- tralia, New Zealand & Ceylon, Noon two

Philippines, 3 p.m. results of the Geneva eanderence he suffered a fractured hip

Indo-China, Franco, p.m. of headh of governments has years ago.

Philippines, N. Borneo, 0 p.m. Among his songs were "Wait been to establish personal cons | Tul

Japan, Kawail. U.S.A., Cazımda, the Sun Shines Nellie"

6 p.m. tacts between those heads and "Meet Me in St Louis and

Malaya, Indonesia, Australia Now Swanee Where the

Zealand, Thailand, India, Paklatan, thus to create an atmosphere "Down

Middle East, Africk, Great Britain & of businesslike co-operation" it River Flows." China Mall added.--Router.

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Bagdad, Aug. 11, Said Qazaz, Iraq Minister of 1955 to the 8th day of Septem- the Interior, left

today ber 1955, both days inclusive. Anicara to negotiate an agree

ment under which Turkey would! Join Iraq in campaigning against Communist inoltration activities. He is also seeking to establish full co-operation for maintaining order and security along the Turco-Iraqi borders. Reuter.

By Order of the Board,

F. H. FELL.

Secretary Hongkong, 10th Aug, 1955.

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By Frank

enthusiastic praise ไก seven

Again, throughout its history, languages German.

English,

the festival has bear under the French, Italian, Portuguese, direction of members of the Spanish and Dutch. maestro's family. On Wagner's

death in 1883, It was taken over

Certainly the Festival is

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both in Ger- More ap- been

received

by his widow, who harted over popular as ever. to their son, Siegfried, in 1000. many and abroad. When Siefgried Wagner died in plications have 1930, his English-born wife, for sets this year than ever Winifred, ran the festival, until before, and both "Ring"" series sold out have been completely World War II.

Since its resumption in 1951 though a few odd wants remain it has been under the direction for some of the other operas. of the two sons of Siegfried and Winifred, Wolfgang Wagner and Wieland Wagner.

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Nor are the scots cheap. The lowest price is 30 marks (over £2 sterling), so that to see the whole of the "Ring" it cannot cost less than 100 marks (£8, (s.),

AT A LOSS

Eut even when the theatre, as usually happens, is packed night after night to its capacity of. 2,000 people, the festival. must run at a loss, Staging a Wagner opern, with ita dozen or more top-line singers and its symphony-size orchestra, is an expensive business, and the Fes- tival depends on the 500.000 marks (about £41,700 sterling) which it receives each year in subsidies from the German Federal Government and the Government of Bavaria, as well us gifts from private sources.

A feature of this year's Fes- tival has been the international character of the bookings. Only about half the estimated 45,000 visitor will have come from Germany. Britain heads the st of other countries, fonowed by the United States,

while opera Haru -wl dock

from France, Holland, Belgium, Swit zerland, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal and South America.

fare

The Iron Curtain is no barri- er to Wagner fars. There have been several bookings from Eastern Europe, especially Cze- choslovakia and Hungary. Other visitors will come from Egypt, the Middle East, and na far away as India and Japan.

Several artists, too, are com- ing from abroad, including Ramon Vimmy and Astrid Var- nay from New York, and Gre Brouwenstijin from Amsterdam,

China Mali Special

Korean Priests Agree At. Last

Seoul, Aug, 11.

The 15-month-old dispute be-- tween married, and single. priesta of South Korea reached a settle. ment today when a combined committee of bóth zidne voted to give control of Korean Buddhatarn to single monks and runs.

The vote, was saved to one in favour of celibate priéets withi one abstention.

Four representatives from the married and five representatives from the single priests took part in the voting today.

Education Minister Lee Sun Kansaid toxight that ther Government regarded today's : voting as having legal

slůvalidity.

Married prientar are, scheduled to hold a mass meeting, bere tomorrow: to niek: their victóvy: in, the long dispute (which new, blondabad psan? strikes by, sin de Bor Government